This collection of articles published in npj Heritage Science derives largely from the posters presented at the ‘Manuscripts in the Making: Art and Science’ conference held in Cambridge, UK in ...

At left: This Arabic botanical manuscript from the 15th century is part of the Robert Garrett Collection donated to the University in 1942. Below left: The Garrett Collection also includes this Quran ...

Writing anonymous peer reviews is an academic “black art.” Such assessments are vital to scholarly publishing but we receive no formal training in how to write one. Drawing on my own experiences as an ...

The Yale University Press published a photo facsimile edition of the mysterious 15th-century Voynich manuscript Nov. 1, making the artifact available to the public in a way it has never been before.

The story was tailor-made for headlines: The indecipherable Voynich Manuscript that once stumped the best code breakers of World War II had finally been cracked, and it was a simple ...

Lisa Fagin Davis was starting her medieval-studies Ph.D. at Yale in 1989 when she got a part-time job at the university’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Her boss was the curator of early ...